Friday, September 14, 2012

I have a few posts that I owe you: a bachelorette party post and a wedding post. But right now, I'm exhausted. My motivation to do just about anything, save looking at wedding photos, is zero.

The wedding was amazing and joyous. It was so much more than I ever could have hoped for. But it was also just incredibly draining. Planning the wedding felt like death by a thousand cuts. My brain seems to be protesting organizing anything at this point. We took a few days off after the wedding, but I feel like I could have used a few more. Motivating myself feels like pushing on a deflated balloon: I just bulge out to the sides, but very little movement actually occurs.

Which brings us to Lobsterman. It's my last olympic distance race of the season. I signed up for it thinking that there was a good chance I wouldn't want to race the weekend after my wedding. But as I was riding high on the post-wedding, good feelings, I decided I should go for it. I had originally thought that I might be able to post a new PR tomorrow. Lobsterman was the site of my PR from last year. And damn it, if I still don't want to shave those 10 seconds off my time to get down to sub-2:35. But I fear that, at present, I lack the ferocity necessary to go out hard and red line the run. Hell, I don't even have stretchy laces in my running shoes at the moment.

Thus, the plan for tomorrow is to just go out and have fun. I love racing. There's no pressure on this one.

I leave you with one of my favorite picts from the wedding. I have no idea what Paul said that was so funny, but I just love how happy we are. That's how it felt the whole day.

1 comments:

gorgeous photo!! you certainly looked lovely last weekend, and i'm glad it was such a great day for you two :) glad you're just out there to enjoy the race-- hopefully you'll get some rest and be able to recharge afterwards!